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New Deep Learning Method Adds 301 Planets to Kepler's Total Count

November 23, 2021
. New Deep Learning Method Adds 301 Planets to Kepler’s Total Count Scientists have added a whopping 301 newly confirmed exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly validated exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. The throng of planets is the latest to join the 4,569 already validated planets orbiting a…
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How NASA’s Curiosity Rover Is Making Mars Safer for Astronauts

November 16, 2021
. How NASA’s Curiosity Rover Is Making Mars Safer for Astronauts A radiation sensor aboard the spacecraft is providing new data on the health risks humans would face on the surface. Could lava tubes, caves, or subsurface habitats offer safe refuge for future astronauts on Mars? Scientists with NASA’s Curiosity Mars…
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NASA delays ambitious human lunar landing to 2025

November 10, 2021
NASA is pushing back its target date for returning humans to the Moon, now eyeing a crewed lunar landing in 2025 instead of 2024 as originally planned. NASA blames the delay on recent lawsuits over contracts for the agency’s lunar lander, as well as changes to the scope of…
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SpaceX successfully brings crew of four home from the International Space Station

November 9, 2021
A crew of four astronauts successfully returned to Earth this evening, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. Their arrival back on the planet brings an end to a more than six-month-long stay aboard the International Space Station, and it paves the way for another crew of four to launch to the ISS in the coming week. The crew includes…
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SpaceX Crew-3 launch delayed again, this time to November 10th

November 8, 2021
The SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station has been delayed again, this time to November 10th at 9:03PM ET, NASA said Sunday. Although NASA had originally planned to have a changing of the guard with the Crew-2 astronauts greeting the Crew-3 team before…
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A CADRE of Mini-Rovers Navigate the Lunar Terrain of SLOPE

November 5, 2021
. A CADRE of Mini-Rovers Navigate the Lunar Terrain of SLOPE NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) project is developing small robots programmed to work autonomously as a team to explore the lunar surface. A team of shoebox-size rover scouts was recently put to the test at a NASA Glenn Research Center lab. The facility…
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